TELEGRAM TO L. D. TROTSKY

Written:Written on January 2 or 3, 1919Published:First published inPravdaNo. 21 , January 21, 1937.

      Printed from the text written by J. V. Stalin and signed by V. I. Lenin.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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Trotsky,Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Councilof the RepublicKursk (or present whereabouts)

Theoperations report of the Chief of Staff of the
Caucasus Front No. 4873 shows that the Krasnov troops have
occupied Raigorod, on the banks of the Volga south of
Sarepta, threatening in the first place our military freight
moving from Vladimirovka to Tsaritsyn, and secondly
the safety of the line from Astrakhan to Saratov. Please
take steps. The same operations report shows that a British
fleet of four vessels bombarded Staroterechnaya, south of
Astrakhan, set fire to two of our barges and withdrew to sea
unscathed, seizing our hospital shipAleskerwith medical
staff on board. Where is our fleet and what is it doing?

LeninChairman, Council of People’s Commissars